Dr. Maboloc is a faculty at Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Professor at the American University of Sovereign Nations. He is part of the WeCope Committee on Covid‐19 of the Eubios Ethics Institute. He is the author of 50+ indexed papers, including a dozen indexed by Scopus, and has delivered 50+ lectures in conferences here and abroad.
Statement of the SES expressing its opposition to the proposal to remove Ethics in the GE Curriculum
We, members of the Board of Directors of the Social Ethics Society, express our strong opposition to the proposal to remove ethics in college. Such move is bereft of merit and is ignorant as to the value and purpose of the teaching of the course, which is thoroughly rooted in the integral and critical function of higher education. The proposal to transfer it to Senior High School deprives college students of the teaching of ethics as a professional course, which is crucial in their civic engagements and the pursuit of a democratic society that can only be grounded in responsible citizenship and critical thinking. The direction of Edcom and its advisers from the technical panels of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) reduces our whole education system into a mode of creating docile workers who will constitute the labor force that will serve the whims and interests of a capital intensive and consumer driven globalized neoliberal economic order. It only breeds our subser...
